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Daily GK Current Affairs News viable of 15th September 2021. – Here is the Regular current affairs viable of 15th September 2021. covering the following news headlines: Lasith Malinga, ICC Players of the Month for August, National Florence Nightingale Award 2021, UNESCO Literacy Prize, Swami Brahmanand Award 2021.

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Banking News
Awards News
Sports News
Important Days
Miscellaneous News

Banking News

Paytm Payments Bank launches FASTag-based metro parking facility

Paytm Payments Bank Limited (PPBL) in partnership with Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has launched India’s first FASTag-based metro parking facility at Kashmere Gate Metro Station.
Paytm Payments Bank will be the acquiring bank to facilitate the processing of all FASTag-based transactions for cars with a valid FASTag sticker, thus eliminating the hassle of making and stopping cash payments over the counter.
The parking facility is the first to accept payment via the UPI (unified payments interface) mode, which has been launched for two-wheeler vehicles, entering the parking site.
PPBL will digitise parking facilities across the country with Kashmere Gate metro station being the first one to be powered by the bank’s digital payment solution.

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MD and CEO of Paytm Payments Bank Ltd: Satish Kumar Gupta.
Paytm Payments Bank Ltd Headquarters: Noida, Uttar Pradesh.

RBI announces Opening of Third Cohort under the Regulatory Sandbox

The Reserve Bank of India has announced the theme for the Third Cohort under the Regulatory Sandbox (RS) as ‘MSME Lending’. The application for the Third Cohort will be kept open from October 01, 2021 to November 14, 2021.
Regulatory Sandbox (RS) refers to live testing of new products or services in a controlled/test regulatory environment for which regulators may (or may not) permit certain regulatory relaxations for the limited purpose of the testing.
First Cohort: First Cohort under the Regulatory Sandbox was launched by RBI in December 2020, with the theme as ‘Retail Payments’. Six entities have completed the testing phase of the cohort.
Second Cohort: Second Cohort under the Regulatory Sandbox was announced by RBI in December 2020 with the theme as ‘Cross Border Payments’. Eight entities have been selected for the ‘Test Phase’.

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RBI 25th Governor: Shaktikant Das;
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Founded: 1 April 1935, Kolkata.

Awards News

Super 30 founder Anand Kumar conferred with Swami Brahmanand Award 2021

Mathematician Anand Kumar was conferred with the Swami Brahmanand Award 2021 for his contribution in the field of education through his ‘Super 30’ initiative, which prepares underprivileged students for the IIT entrance exam.
He received the award from professor Roop Kishore Shastri, the vice-chancellor of Haridwar’s Gurukula Kangri deemed university, at a function in the Rath area of Hamirpur district of Uttar Pradesh. Super 30′ is a coaching programme of Kumar’s Patna-based Ramanujan School of Mathematics.
It hunts for 30 meritorious students from among economically backward sections of the society and shapes them to clear the test to get into the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT).
It has been instituted in the name of Swami Brahmananda, a freedom fighter, former MP and a saint known for his sacrifices and his contribution in the field of education.

Bhanumati Gheewala to get National Florence Nightingale Award 2021

The Florence Nightingale Award will be given to Bhanumati Gheewala, a nurse at Sir Sayajirao General Hospital, Gujarat. She has been in charge of child care along with delivery of COVID-19 positive pregnant women.
She worked in the Department of Gynecology as well as in the Pediatric ward. In 2019, when the hospital wards were flooded due to floods. She performed her duty in the Gynecology Department and Pediatric Ward.
The Florence Nightingale Award is given by the Indian Nursing Council. This is a statutory agency under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, to recognise the contributions of healthcare workers.

Sports News

Joe Root, Eimear Richardson named ICC Players of the Month for August

England’s Test captain Joe Root and Ireland’s Imier Richardson have been named as the winners of the ICC Players of the Month for August 2021.
Root was voted ICC Men’s Player of the Month for August for his consistent performances in the Test series against India, which was part of the next cycle of the ICC World Test Championship (WTC).
In women’s cricket, Ireland’s Ameer Richardson has had a sensational August as well and was voted the ICC Women’s Player of the Month for August 2021.

Lasith Malinga announces retirement from all forms of cricket

Lasith Malinga announced his retirement from T20 cricket after 295 matches in which he took 390 wickets. He had already retired from Tests in 2011 and ODIs in 2019.
The Sri Lankan pacer had also announced his retirement from franchise crhttps://pageraja.com/icket in January this year after being released by Mumbai Indians.
Malinga was the first bowler to take 100 T20I wickets before finishing with 107 scalps. He is the fourth highest wicket-taker behind Dwayne Bravo, Imran Tahir and Sunil Narine.

Zimbabwe’s Brendan Taylor announces retirement from International Cricket

Former Zimbabwe captain and wicket-keeper batsman Brendan Taylor has announced his retirement from international cricket. He made this announcement while playing the third final ODI against Ireland on 13 September 2021.
The 34-year-old batsman made his ODI debut for Zimbabwe against Sri Lanka in 2004. He has scored 6677 runs in 204 ODIs in his 17-year ODI career.

Important Days

World Lymphoma Awareness Day: 15 September

The World Lymphoma Awareness Day (WLAD) is observed globally on September 15 every year. The day is dedicated to raising awareness about lymphoma and the particular emotional and psychosocial challenges facing patients and caregivers suffering from different forms of lymphoma.
World Lymphoma Day was initiated in 2002 by the Lymphoma Coalition(link is external), a worldwide network of 83 lymphoma patient groups based in Ontario, Canada, whose mission is enabling global impact by fostering a lymphoma ecosystem that ensures local change and evidence-based action.

International Day of Democracy: 15 September

International Day of Democracy is celebrated globally on 15 September every year. It was established through a resolution passed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2007 to promote and uphold the principles of democracy and to provide an opportunity to review the state of democracy in the world.
The theme of the 2021 International Day of Democracy is “Strengthening democratic resilience in the face of future crises”.
The Day was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly through a resolution in 2007 to strengthen national programmes devoted to the promotion and consolidation of democracy. The day was observed for the first time in 2008.

National Engineer’s Day: 15 September

In India, Engineer’s Day is celebrated on September 15 every year. The day is celebrated to recognise the contribution of engineers in the development of the nation.
The day marks the birth anniversary of the engineering pioneer of India, Sir Mokshagundam Vishweshvaraya, (popularly known as Sir MV). He was awarded ‘Bharat Ratna’ for his exceptional contribution to the building of India in 1955.
He has also conferred the British knighthood and served as Diwan of Mysore from 1912 to 1918. In 1968, the Indian government declared Sir M Visvesvaraya’s birth anniversary as Engineers’ Day.
Sir MV was regarded as the “Father of Modern Mysore”. Since then, this day is celebrated to honour and acknowledge all engineers who have contributed and still do so to build a modern and developed India.

Miscellaneous News

PM Narendra Modi lays foundation stone of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh University

Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh.
The Uttar Pradesh government is establishing the university in the memory and honor of the great freedom fighter, educationist and social reformer Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh.
The university will be spread over an area of more than 92 acres in Lodha village and Mussepur Karim Jrauli village of Kol tehsil in Aligarh and will provide affiliation to 395 colleges of Aligarh division.

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